In lieu of posting this on eLance or other developer forum, I am going to ask for a web design and programming price quote. Please quote your price in the comment section of this thread. After I select a winning company, I will share the company name and price of the project. I will also [...] Rel...

National Car Rental loses case over domain name. Roy Messer, perhaps most famous for selling Vodka.com for $3M, has successfully defended the domain name NationalRentaCar.com through UDRP. The majority of the panel found that the domain name was confusingly similar to Vanguard Trademark HoldingsR...

At the Domain Roundtable conference in Washington, D.C. last month, I noticed a lot of new faces with the Sedo team. As I started talking to them, I realized what was going on. Sedo had hired a number of people experienced selling to businesses. The company was making a focused effort selling to ...

There were a few interesting domain auctions closing today. One very interesting one was Hollywood.us. I don’t own very many .us domains, but this sure looked like a good one, especially in light of the success of Hollywood.com and Hollywood.tv. After much debate between myself and myself, I p...

I’m not sure if this is the first lawsuit resulting from a tweet on Twitter, however it’s the first tweet lawsuit I’ve heard of. The tweet certainly was offensive but did it cause anywhere near the $50,000 being asked for? The person sending the tweet (whose Twitter account is now ...

NameMedia has a sky-high week thanks to SkyHarbor.com. NameMedia, which operates BuyDomains.com and Afternic, sold over $600,000 in domain names over the past week. The standout sale was SkyHarbor.com at $35,000. SkyHarbor.com has yet to change hands, but a possible buyer is the Phoenix airport, c...

I am looking to sell MountainBikers.com and have reduced the price to $4,500 for this domain name. As I did before, I will lay out the vision I have for a website on MountainBikers.com, which I will have developed should it not sell. If you’d like to buy this domain name at the reduced price, ...

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I’ve discussed why I think its important to set Google Alerts, and I hope you’ve considered the reasons. Not only does it allow me to immediately see breaking news stories related to the domain industry, but it also helps me find articles I may have missed otherwise. I want to share my d...

DNJournal.com Cover Story - Michael Berkens is one of the most successful investors in the history of the domain industry. He also writes an influential blog at TheDomains.com, yet few people knew anything about his background - until now. Meet the man Ron Sheridan called "the best kept secret in t...

Owen Frager had a good article in which he pointed out what Rick Schwartz is doing on eRealEstate.com. I don’t know the details of the deal, but Rick is still using eRealEstate.com for his own company, and another company is using eRealEstate.com as a social network for real estate professiona...

A study by the search advertising network Chitika , says that people who land on sites from organic search results are 55% more likely to click on an ad from Bing.com than on  Google. Analyzing click-through rates from 32 million ad impressions across a network of more than 50,000 sites during seve...

New Steve Carell movie uses .me domain name in promotions. Domain Name Wire reader Chris Robbins took his kids to the movies over the weekend and saw a preview for the computer animated movie “Despicable Me”. The movie features the voice of Steve Carell and hits movie theaters next summ...

Pair of insurance domains top Sedo’s weekly sales list. Assurancevie.com and Assurance-vie.com, which means life insurance in French, have sold on Sedo for a combined price tag of $87,000. The domain broker also sold Texel.de this week for 39,500 EUR. But the big talk may be a smaller sale &...

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According to AdvertisingAge.com,  Yahoo is on the verge of a deal that would make Microsoft’s Bing.com, its search provider. Yes according to the story, Yahoo would send its traffic to Bing.com and the story goes on to say the deal is likely to be announced this week. However,  unlike the re...

Time Warner bought the 5% of AOL that Google owned for $283 million dollars. Its not a very good return for Google. Back in 2002 its purchased their 5% interest for $1 Billion dollars. Time Warner, plans to spin off AOL by the end of the year, into a separate public company, bought the stake from Go...

Sedo has just announced a new monthly "Industry Spotlight" feature that will highlight domains currently for sale in a specific category on the popular aftermarket site. The first category being spotlighted is Real Estate which gets a dedicated page listing several dozen domains ranging in price fro...

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No, AAA doesn’t own exclusive rights to ‘AAA’. [Editor's note: If you don't have time to read this entire article, skip to the quote from Houston Putnam Lowry at the end. He believes the entire business model of registering generic domain names for later sale is prohibited under U...

Cybersquatter hands over domains — and up to $15,000 cash. In terms of domain name cybersquatting and trademark settlements, it’s hardly the biggest judgment. The difference is that this one involves someone who will actually have to pay up and it will certainly hurt his pocket book. E...

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I was looking over some of my .COM.AU domain names that I own that are hyphenated, I don't have many hyphenated domains but I still think if the search phrase is a strong one then it is worth having. In Australia I have been surprised......

I guess its time for everyone to expand their vocabulary with the newest term for domainers: “Domain Hacking” Apparently the folks at smashingmagazine.com have some previously unknown advice in  their story “Get Creative With Your Domain Name” Here is some of their advice. &...

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